Jews are adapting to the new racial make-up of the United States.<\/p>\n
Connie Bruck writes her typically listless profile in the New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n At AIPAC\u2019s policy conference last March, Olga Miranda, the president of S.E.I.U. Local 87, gazed out at the crowd that filled the darkened Washington Convention Center\u2014a gathering she dubbed the \u201cJewish Super Bowl.\u201d Large video screens displayed her image. A lively woman with long black hair and a commanding voice, Miranda proclaimed, \u201cI am a union leader, I am Joaquin\u2019s mother, I am one of nine children raised by a single mother, I am a Chicana\u2014and I am AIPAC!\u201d For years, she explained, her information about the Middle East had come from television, and she sympathized with the Palestinians, until one day she got a call from someone at AIPAC who asked her if she\u2019d be interested in a trip to Israel. That trip changed her life, she said. Now she argues about Israel with her friends and colleagues. \u201cSee you on the picket lines!\u201d she shouted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe face of pro-Israel activists has changed pretty dramatically,\u201d David Victor, a former AIPAC president, told me. In the past eight years, AIPAC has reached out to Hispanics, African-Americans, and evangelical Christians, in the hope that greater diversity will translate into continued support in Congress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jews are adapting to the new racial make-up of the United States. Connie Bruck writes her typically listless profile in the New Yorker: At AIPAC\u2019s policy conference last March, Olga Miranda, the president of S.E.I.U. Local 87, gazed out at … Continue reading